Buckle and band.



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BUCKLE AND BAND.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. B, 1912.

Patented Mar. 3, 1914.

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BUCKLE AND BAND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 3, 1914.

Application filed March 8, 1912. Serial No. 682,500.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnoncn EDWARD Free, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, and a resident of 715 Wellington street, in the city ofMontreal, in the Province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Buckles and Bands; and Ido hereby de clare that the following is a full, clear, an exactdescription of the same.

The invention relates to improvements in a buckle and band, as describedin the pres ent specification and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings that form part of the same.

The invention consists essentially of the novel construction andarrangement of the buckle and band, more fully disclosed hereinafter.

The objects of the invention are to devise buckle and band particularlyapplicable as a necktie holder for double collars, to provide a verysimple article for supporting the apparel on the wearer and generally tocheapen such devices so as to bring within the reach of the most modestconsumer.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of the band and buckleused as necktie holder. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the buckle. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal sectional view of the band and buckle showing the positionof the tie in dotted lines.

Referring to the drawings 1 is the eye opening at one end of the thinpiece of sheet material, the said material being preferably bent inarc-shape and said eye opening having the saw edge 2 at the inner sidethereof forming substantially a part moonshaped opening adjacent to oneend of the piece of material.

3 is a cross slot in the piece of material 2. 4 is a cross slot at theother end of the piece of material corresponding in size to the slot 3,said slot coming out through the piece of material under the outwardlyextending lip 5.

6 is the band of elastic material and corresponding in widthparticularly at the ends thereof to the cross slots 3 and 4, one end ofsaid band being first inserted through the slot 4: from the outer sideand then through the eye opening 1 and back over the saw edge 2 andthrough the slot 3 from the outer side and then through the slot 4 fromthe inner side, the free end being loose as shown. Thus when the band ismade taut 1n the buckle the saw edge 2 grips the over fold of the bandin the inner side and effectually prevents any slip. 7 is a hook fixedlysecured to the other end of the band 6 and adapted to engage in the eye1.

In the use of this invention particularly, where it is applied as anecktie holder within double collars the necktie is first insertedbetween the buckle and band, where the band stretches along the insideof said buckle and looped or tied over the outside of the buckleaccording to the style of the tie that is to say whether it is a derbyor a how.

The tying of the necktie may be done by the wearer or any one expert inthe particular accomplishment, thus it is a hand made knot or bow andmay be changed as often as desired. The act of placing it around theneck and over the collar band is very simple and it is here that theinvention becomes a great aid to the dresser, for the face of the collarat the front vertical edge is slipped under the lip 5 and the elasticband run around the collar under said face. The collar is then put on inthe ordinary way, the hook of the band catching the other vertical edgeof the face, therefore as there is nothing more to be done when thewearer has secured his collar on to the shirt than to unhook the bandfrom the edge of the face of the collar and slip it into the opening 1then the buckle is moved slightly just sufficient to release the lip 5from engagement with the other vertical edge of the face of the collarand thus each end of the buckle will disappear under the face of thecollar and only the tie be in view. In other uses the ornamentation ofthe buckle is applied in any suitable way either by an ornament rigidlysecured to the outer side thereof or a bow tied around in the samefashion as described. The elastic band is secured to the buckle in thesame way and may be put around the waist of the wearer, the arm or anyother part of the body and secured in the same way.

What I claim as my invention is In a buckle and band, a sheet materialplate slightly enlarged at each end and having corresponding arc-shapedcuts in the material adjacent to the end edges, the metal bent in theform of a lip and the metal ininside of one of said cuts being outwardlythe other end by being threaded through 10 the slots in the mannerspecified.

Signed at Montreal Que. Canada this fifteenth day of February 1912.

GEORGE EDWARD FIGG.

side of the other out being removed to form a crescent-shaped openinghaving aserrated inner edge, and a further cross slot parallel with saidserrated edge, and a band having a fastener at one end adapt-ed to en-Witnesses: gage detachably the crescent-shaped open- W. HAMMOND, ing andremovably attached to the plate at P. A.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of lPatents,

Washington, D. 0.

